Letas in Italy with the Lombardy Ladies Open



by ANDREA GUSSONI

Letas in Italy with the Lombardy Ladies Open
Letas in Italy with the Lombardy Ladies Open © Getty Images Sport - Octavio Passos / Stringer

The LET Access, the second European women's circuit, stops in Italy for the Lombardy Ladies Open scheduled from 5 to 7 October (54 holes) on the course of the Varese Golf Club, in Luvinate (VA).

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There will be 16 Italian players in a quality field in the third to last tournament of the year in which the contest to obtain one of the six 'cards' for the Ladies European Tour 2024, reserved for the top six in the order of merit, but also the coveted positions from seventh to 20th which allow direct access to the final of the Qualifying School (16-20 December, Marrakech, Morocco).

At the start Stefania Croce, for many years on the LPGA Tour, Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso, Clara Manzalini, Erika De Martini, Sara Berselli, Alessia Fornara, Caterina Tatti, Marta Spiazzi and the amateurs Francesca Pompa, Alice D'Adamo, Anastasia Maroni, Matilde Zocchi , Federica Torre, Elisa Galli, Carolina Caminoli and Maria Eugenia Furnari.

The top ten on the money list and eleven seasonal winners will be on the field. Place your bets on the Danish Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen, number 1 with two successes in the year, and on the Swiss Elena Moosmann (no. 2) and Chiara Tamburlini (no.

3 and two titles), revelations of the last period, who will be the favourites. . Also obtaining a title were the English Emily Price (n. 4) and Gemma Clews (n. 5), the Danish Puk Lyng Thomsen (n. 7), the Austrian Katharina Muehlbauer (n.

8) and the Spanish Marta Martin ( no. 9) and, completing the top ten, the Slovenian Katja Pogacar (no. 6) and the Scottish Hannah McCook (no. 10). The English Lianna Bailey, the Dane Fie Olsen, the Transalpine Lucie Andrè and the South African Lejan Lewthwaite, who scored in the previous Hauts de France Pas de Calais Golf Open, also reached the top step of the podium and will be competing.

As for the blues, Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso, Clara Manzalini, Erika De Martini and Sara Berselli have the opportunity to stand out, as well as Stefania Croce who will in any case give a taste of her class. The prize money is 50,000 euros, the third highest this season on the tour.